Spreading data across the hybrid cloud: What goes where?
February 3, 2014
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Del Lunn.
The term hybrid cloud is used to refer to a combination of public and private clouds that are tailored to suit an organisation’s specific business needs. As a minimum, a single private cloud and single public cloud are all that are required to create a hybrid cloud computing platform. However, organisations can always combine multiple private and public clouds to suit the business’ requirements.
A public cloud enables organisations to adopt enterprise class technologies for their environment at an affordable price point. However, security, availability, compliance, performance, portability and the cloud provider’s market longevity can often be of concern. A private cloud can answer these concerns but is more expensive to deploy and operate. A hybrid cloud offers both these benefits by integrating an organisations data and processing the data into the correct cloud. This prompts the following question: with regards to the hybrid cloud, which data goes where?…
It’s really a case of data classification and risk. When a company’s applications and data are moved from on-premise platforms to a public cloud offering, the organisation will essentially be ‘renting’ services alongside other customers, whilst entirely entrusting the provider and its staff with regards to data security, uptime of services, confidentiality, compliance and transition, all of which can have a catastrophic effect for some businesses if not adhered to or met…
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